"Excruciate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Countess, stopping her ears like a child. 'Do not excruciate me so. You laugh! My goodness! ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... experimentally just. The feeling of languor[566], which succeeds the animation of gaiety, is itself a very severe pain; and when the mind is then vacant, a thousand disappointments and vexations rush in and excruciate. Will not many even of my fairest readers ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 3 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill |
